There will be an update on Columbia Football on gocolumbialions.com
released every Tuesday evening in 2013.
The features will include updates on the team's off-season workouts,
dates to remember and other team information that will keep you in the know
about the Columbia Football program!

Ivy
Football Dinner

Just a reminder, Columbia Football will celebrate the tremendous
accomplishments of Marcellus Wiley '97CC at the Ivy Football Association (IFA)
Dinner on Thursday, February 7. This year's dinner will be held for the first
time at the Marriot Marquis hotel in Times Square. You can get more information
at www.ivyfootballassociation.org.

These other fantastic Columbia Football alumni have been honored at the
Ivy Football Association:

We continue to move
forward in building a football team that will have the strength and stamina to
excel. Our Body Composition initiative is beginning to show real results.

Throughout the course
of the year, we collect the following data on each player: weight, body fat
percentage, lean mass and fat mass. Measurements are taken four times each
year, at the start of training camp, after the season, at the start of the
spring semester and at the end of spring football practice.

Now that the spring
semester is underway, we officially have 3 data points for this year's
returning players - and important trends are beginning to emerge.

Since we started our
program in August 2012, every single position, on average, has gained lean mass.
In particular, our returning quarterbacks have gained 9.3 pounds of lean mass
since August, while reducing their body fat percentage by 1.2%. Only three
positions have increased body fat percentage - and these three positions had
the lowest body fat percentages when we started tracking.

Here are the total
changes since August 2012:

Position

Lean Mass (in pounds)

Body Fat % (in percentage points)

DB

+3.2

- 0.94%

DL

+2.9

- -

LB

+4.2

+ 0.3%

OL

+3.3

- 2.2%

QB

+9.3

- 1.2%

RB

+1.2

+ 1.2%

TE

+4.3

- 0.4%

WR

+3.4

+ 1.4%

K/P

+6.1

- 1.1%

As you can see, we are moving forward - and
getting stronger. Strength Coach Ryan Cidzik gave our players a specialized
training program for each position to follow during the winter break - and the
results have been outstanding.

In cases where both lean mass and body fat
percentage have both gone up - it means that our players may have put on too
much weight, too quickly. By tracking body composition on both an individual
and team basis, we can tailor our strength training plans to ensure that we are
getting the maximum results for our team.

With Coach Cidzik's spring semester training
program in full force, we expect to see even greater results by the end of
spring practice. Keep checking our updates on Columbia Football for more
information as we move forward through the spring.

The
Pride of Morningside

One of Coach Mangurian's first priorities when he arrived on Morningside
Heights was get the campus community involved with the Columbia Football
program. Coach Mangurian has a solid group of University Leadership, faculty
and staff that are involved in many facets of the Columbia Football Program.
Columbia's faculty, staff and University Leadership were excited to be
involved. Many of them, including deans and professors, are involved in every recruiting weekend! Once
again, thank you to all the members of the Morningside Pride!

Intent
is Inferred

You've heard it for the past week - National
Signing Day is upon us. Do you
know what National Signing Day is?
National Signing Day is the first Wednesday in February, which is the
first day a high school senior can sign a binding National Letter of Intent for
college football. Remember what we said a few updates ago about recruiting
information? If not, no worries,
here it is again.

Columbia does not participate in the National
Letter of Intent program. The Ivy League rule has different layers to it, but
in short, at Columbia, a prospective student-athlete is considered
"signed" when they send back their signed admission statement and
they have paid their deposit. We are unable to comment on student-athlete
commitments until that time.

That being said, we are excited that some of our
prospective student-athletes will announce their college decisions
tomorrow. Please note though, we
still have to wait for before we can make any comments. Coach Mangurian will not release names
until the entire class is complete and have paid their deposits.